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- Shoe. No. 230,649. Patented Au 3, 1880.

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ANDREW NICHOLS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES GRANT, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,649, dated August 3, 1880. Application filed June 28, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, ANDREW NICHOLS, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a longitudinal section of a shoe 1o embracing my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken through the heel. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, ofthe heel-crowningre-entorce, to be described. Fig. 5 is a side view of the shoe having its sole split at the heel for reception of the said re-enforce.

My improvement relates to what is known in'trade and' by shoe-makers as a turned shoethat is, a childs shoe havingits upper turned inside out, and when in such condition lasted and sewed to theinner surface of a sole, the whole being subsequently turned inside out. The stitches ot the sewing do not go through the sole from its inner to its outer surface, but simply pass through the lap of the upper and go a short distance into and then out of the next adjacent part of the sole.

In making a shoe of this kind it, before the date of my invention, has beenconsidered dif- 0 ficult, if not impossible, to form the sole with what manufacturers term a spring-heelthat is a heel convex on its outer surface and in one piece with the rest of the sole, my invention being to eii'ectthis purpose.

After the upperand the sole have been sewed together and the shoe turned so as to bring outward the outside surfaces of the upper and sole, I slit the sole through the heel portion thereof to the shank, and midway, or about midway, between the outer surface of the sole 40 and the stitches connecting the sole to the upper, the slit being parallel, or about'so, to the said surface; and having turned or foldedback toward or upon the shank the free partof the heel of the sole, I place on the part from which said free part was separated a crowned re-enforce or convex piece of sole-leather or other suitable material, and nail, peg, or otherwise secure it in place. Having done this I turn the said free part over uponthe. said re-enforce, and cement or otherwise properly fasten it thereto, thereby causing the said free part,

on its outer surface, to be convex and theheel to present the appearance/of a spring-heel.

In the drawings, A denotes the shoe-upper; B, the sole; C, the re-enforce; a, the stitching of the sole and upper, and b the cut or slit made in the heel of the sole, the free part produced by such out being shown at c.

I claim as myinvention as follows, viz:

1. As an improved manufacture, a turned shoe having its sole split or slit in its heel, as described, and a crowning re-enforce, as explained, arranged in the slit and fixed to the sole, substantially as set forth.

' 2. The mode, substantially as describethfor making a shoe, it consisting in sewing the upper to the sole, and subsequently turning the vupperand sole, as explained, and slitting the sole from its heel to, or nearly to, its shank, between the stitching and the outer surface of the sole, and inserting in the slit and fixing to the inner surfaces thereof a crowning re-' enforce, snbstaptially as set forth.

ANDREIV NICHOLS. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, WM. W. LUNT. 

